Homelessness

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Remembering a Pioneer: Bob Coté

This year I've written about what I learned in Colorado Springs at the Springs Rescue Mission. But when I stayed there last year, I also thought of the pioneer who, starting in 1983, built a predecessor of SRM just up the highway in Denver. His name: Bob Coté, a six-foot-three-inch ex-amateur boxer who in his forties changed his life by not drinking his usual half gallon of vodka for lunch. Instead, he poured out the bottle's contents and became in 1983 one of the original residents of a new program, Step 13. Read More ›
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Oakland Residents Demand Accountability and Change

We are on the ground in Oakland, CA and some neighborhoods are an absolute disaster. A sense of lawlessness overwhelms the streets. But Seneca Scott is leading a movement that could help bring in a new mayor and turn around this failing city. Transcript Imagine dealing with the worst homeless crisis in the Bay area, crime spiraling out of control, and Read More ›

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Brian Chandler’s Journey from Addiction to Service

In this episode of Restorations, Caitlyn McKenney is joined by Brian Chandler of Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission. Brian shares his incredible journey to UGM and the innovative work the mission is doing to build government relationships for the greater good of the city.

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Dueling Definitions of Compassion

“Compassion: Suffering together with another, participation in suffering.” The emphasis, as you can see from just looking at the word — “com,” with, and “passion,” from the Latin pati, to suffer — is on personal involvement with the needy, suffering with them, not just giving to them. The OED also includes a second definition of “compassion:” “The feeling, or emotion, when a person is moved by the suffering or distress of another, and by the desire to relieve it.” Read More ›
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San Francisco: From Doom Loop to Boom Loop

Is San Francisco making a comeback? A new mayor and a new approach to the homelessness and drug crises could be a game changer for the city that has long been mired in crime, chaos, and death. Jonathan Choe reports. Transcript Parts of San Francisco have been described as being stuck in a perpetual doom loop. A never-ending pattern of Read More ›

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Springs Rescue Mission: More Than Food and a Bed

After some residents complained that those who join the Hope program get better food and the same bed every night, Leinweber asked, "There are some things we've put around this population that makes life harder; is that compassionate?" Then-CEO Jack Briggs responded, "It depends on what you want to incentivize." He criticized approaches that let people settle into victimhood with no sense that they can change their lives: "I don't think that's compassion." Read More ›
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Dr. Robert Marbut and Billy Baldwin Talk Fentanyl Doc with Brian Kilmeade

Senior Fellow Dr. Robert Marbut and actor Billy Baldwin appeared on Fox News Radio’s Brian Kilmeade Show to discuss their new documentary, Fentanyl: Death Incorporated. Marbut and Baldwin discuss how they got involved with the creation of the documentary, the origin of the fentanyl crisis, and the scope of the problem. “The stat that really brings it home,” says Marbut, Read More ›